Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette. – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it. – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight. – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall. – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering. – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up. – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you. – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart. – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly. – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship. – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead. – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge. – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved. – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not. – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
